The third edition of the EU-Western Balkans Media Days has started on Thursday in Podgorica, Montenegro. Organised by the Commission, the Conference gathers around 350 representatives of media and civil society organisations as well as policymakers from the Western Balkans and the EU.

The European Commission's Eurydice network published on 12 September a report that maps the state of digital education in schools across Europe. The report looks at how digital competences are taught and assessed. It also gives an overview of the digital skills of teachers, the policies designed to support digital education and the use of technology in large-scale national tests.

Many spheres of our daily lives rely more and more on satellite navigation. On Tuesday the Prague-based European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Supervisory Authority GSA, which oversees the development of the European space programmes EGNOS and Galileo, the EU's own global satellite navigation system, marked its 15th anniversary.

We have ensured the free flow of non-personal data, simplified VAT rules and undertook steps to improve the business environment and transparency, said Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner in charge of Digital Economy and Society, at the Fourth 'Digital-Life-Design Europe' conference in Brussels.

The European Commission co-hosts with the World Health Organisation (WHO) the first Global Vaccination Summit on 12 September in Brussels. The aim is to accelerate global action to stop the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases, and advocate against the vaccine misinformation. “Vaccination already prevents 2-3m deaths a year and could prevent a further 1.5m if global vaccination coverage improved. Today's summit is an opportunity to address this gap, EC President Jean-Claude Juncker said.

After banning unfair trading practices and improving the conditions for producer cooperation, the Commission presented in May the third element to improve fairness in the food supply chain: stepping up the collection of prices of agri-food products at different stages along the supply chain to see how prices are determined. And following Wednesday's exchange with Member States, the Commission will now adopt the measures to introduce greater transparency.

Under new Commission the EU will create a new defence and space unit to help fund, develop and deploy armed forces, President-elect Ursula von der Leyen stated last Tuesday. The creation of a defence branch, long resisted by Britain, is an attempt by the EC new head to stem a decline in EU influence, as it faces heavy US pressure to do more for its own security.

Today, EC President-elect Ursula Von der Leyen announced the distribution of portfolios to Commissioners-designate during a two-hour long news conference at the Commission’s press room in Brussels. “Well-balanced, agile and modern” she labelled the new College adding that it will be led with “determination, clearly focused on the issues at hand and provides answers.”

Galileo, Europe's satellite navigation system, will reach 1bn smartphone users worldwide on 10 September, EC press service reported. This milestone coincides with the 15th anniversary of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA), the Commission's key partner in operating Galileo. “I am confident that our space industry will continue to thrive with more work, ideas and investment under the new EU Space Programme,” Elzbieta Bienkowska, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, said ahead of a special event at the GSA's headquarters in Prague.

The European Commission on Wednesday decided to register three new European citizens' initiatives. The organisers of the first of them 'Stop corruption in Europe at its root, by cutting off funds to countries with inefficient judiciary after deadline', call on the Commission to 'mandate a firm 10 year post accession deadline for an automatic moratorium on payments of structural and cohesion funds to a newly acceded country, until the monitoring mechanism is lifted from their judiciary'. They state that 'the current EU legal code allows undue interpretation'.

The third edition of the EU-Western Balkans Media Days has started on Thursday in Podgorica, Montenegro. Organised by the Commission, the Conference gathers around 350 representatives of media and civil society organisations as well as policymakers from the Western Balkans and the EU.

The European Commission's Eurydice network published on 12 September a report that maps the state of digital education in schools across Europe. The report looks at how digital competences are taught and assessed. It also gives an overview of the digital skills of teachers, the policies designed to support digital education and the use of technology in large-scale national tests.

Many spheres of our daily lives rely more and more on satellite navigation. On Tuesday the Prague-based European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Supervisory Authority GSA, which oversees the development of the European space programmes EGNOS and Galileo, the EU's own global satellite navigation system, marked its 15th anniversary.

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